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...feel the steps they have to walk on and the costumes they have to wear. There should always be at least four full dress rehearsals before the opening. But I find this is rarely possible in the United States. Over here you don't get the sets and costumes till the day before the opening--hence the necessity for out-of-town tryouts...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Guthrie Analyzes Director's Job | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

...does not disturb the calm of the bespectacled chief engineer, Christian Redron, who wears nothing but khaki shorts and sandals on a skinny frame burned to leather by the sun. But Redron's eye lights up when he speaks of what it means to his country: "Just wait till we get the first oil to France. To help us celebrate, I'll get the Paris office to send us the Blue Bell girls from the Lido...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Miracle of the Sahara | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...holds full sway where Hayworth once ruled supreme, but she has set a record for going far and fast. After only six pictures, she is the nation's No. 1 box-office star, an honor bestowed with calculated deliberation by the exhibitors after a close count of the till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...realies square off and pair off in what might be called drawers-room comedy. House Party is much like The Awful Truth, My Man Godfrey, and other films of that happy age and ilk, and probably the only reason Hollywood scouts have merely nibbled at the book till now is that they get the sensation of already having seen the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hairy Jape | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...week, as a reasonable facsimile of the ship sailed-or, more exactly, was towed (against the tide by a Coast Guard cutter)-into sight of thousands at Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was no surprise, for the voyage of Mayflower II had for months been heralded in the land till many New Englanders grew bored or cynical. Yet, as Mayflower II picked up her mooring, even the cynics forgot their suspicions, jumped into their Pilgrim and Indian costumes and joined the celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Pilgrims' Progress | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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